If you can use the system to support putting a proposal together (costings, sharing ideas, asking for support from relevant teams, working collaboratively on the application), what will this look like?

After proposal receival, seeks RSC advise for panel appointment and confirmation for proposal review

Internal evaluation and recommendation by panel and Research Management Centre (RMC)

After approval, costing, timeframe and rescope according to amount approved

Signing of agreement

Account code creation by Finance

PMA maintenance

costing depends on v-series as guided by the ministry

Capture of information through online application (MOSTI)

Collaborator comes from networking, MOA/MOU/NDA

Aim - produce set of templates for initial costs

Notes on current process in UNMC.

Note down any differences in the process.

Budget in proposal linked to realtime costing

Finance to create account code for project with ease/adhoc and inform researcher

Point of contact with finance department

Finance to have problem solving trail

paper trail and transparency on accounting

ease of fetching uni policy, legal support, patenting counsel and guideline, clear process of MOA and MOU,

costing of administrative staff

Finance guidelines on research student rate/RA/undergraduate,graduate and postgraduate, postdoc student rate.

Template for Principle Investigator to state/fix payment rate to students

Template for CV/credentials/expertise that is made available for consulting search/collaborator search/consortium search

Link to university database of research equipment/facilities/ costing and time.

Panel to assess project risk, outcome risk, budget risk and monitoring, client risk.

Link to ethics approval committee

Health and safety

Animal ethics guidelines for UNMC

-internal

- Ministry (online application forms MOE,MOSTi)

(eg:percentage of allocation, purchase of item)

Faculty is involved with quotation for costing advising

Researcher will do the costing

Panel and RMC will review on costing made accordingly

Ability to extract from TECHONE (after proposal, finance)

'Basic template' but grant specific

Consultancy on finance department (UNMC) tracking for academics (may be after proposal)

UNMC Finance system will need to be able to cope with multiple projects

ability to capture on system

Research committee to be set up to provide comments

Faculty approvals may be needed depending on grant

Ability for PI to question the reviewer feedback (usually templated) - accept or reject

Ability on prompts for when there is feedback

Ability to have a template for giving feedback - not all are captured online - will be good to collate all feedback

Reviewer to receive comments from PI (with RSC)

Might need faculty/dean level for review on proposal costings

Faculty may need to check on equipment availabilities and space